• you have now full WWC support (wind, waves, current, wind shadowing and variations)
• you have now animated telltales!
• you have now luffing sails and collapsing spinnaker
• you have now an attachable HUD and/or hover text info
• and you have all the nice and fun features of v1.74 of course :)

The unique Bolero

The Bolero is a very nice replica of a knockabout sloop. Nice and easy sailing. Windvane with colourshift to indicate trim. Low lag, easy sim crossings plus beautiful animations made her a good choice for some relaxing sailing. Now, there is a major update called the Bolero II.

The unique Bolero II sailing in the North Sea.

So here she is. Notice any differences from the old Bolero? I'll tell you the defining difference. It has telltales. Yes, working telltales. Not only is this the first bwind boat with telltales; It is the first boat in the history of SL sailing, that comes with realistically moving telltales. They wiggle as you sail - just like real telltales.

Balduin and I getting ready for a test cruise.

So many people have told me, that telltales are impossible to build in SL. It has been a little hard to understand, as both the Flying Fizz and the Shelly Fizz featured working telltales since 2008. When I've talked about wiggling telltales, I've only recieved rolling eyeballs for an answer. Thank you, Balduin, for breaking that barrier. You rock! So, - want a close up of those tales?

Beam reach with spin.

I love this picture. It captures the very essence of sailing the Bolero. Main is trimmed right, spin is up, we're actuallu going pretty fast, and yet we sit back, relax, - and have time to talk while sipping hot coffee from the thermo. The spin is also great. It looks great, it is easy to trim, and it collapses visually while making a terrible flapping noise. I am telling you, everybody on board knows when the trimmer is not paying attention. Want a closer closeup?

Bolero II with spin up in the North Sea.

Yeah! I will leave it up to you to try the collapsing spin. Ofcourse that never happens to me, so no pictures, hehe.

• General and major maintenance of the engine:
• The boat has now a more realistic engine.
• The turnangle is related to boat speed.
• The boat achieves full speed only, when parasole is stowed!
• New sounds for starting and turning engine off.
• The engine doesn't start automatecly anymore. After you sit at helmposition you need to turn engine on with keyboard control:
• PAGE_UP ---> turns on engine ! ready to cast off !
• PAGE-UP ---> horn (if engine is on)
• PAGE-DOWN ---> throttle 0%
• PAGE-DOWN & ARROW KEY BACK ---> turns off engine ! ready to dock !
• ARROW-UP ---> accelerates boat
• ARROW- DOWN  ---> slows boat
• ARROW -LEFT/RIGHT  ---> turns boat
• To open, close and stow the Parasol under the seat touch the boat and choose from menu "Parasole" ---> "Open", "Closed", "Stowed"
• We solved LOD issues at some primitives.